{"id":736486,"date":"2026-02-07T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736486\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:01:19","slug":"texas-football-lands-pledge-from-in-state-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736486\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas football lands pledge from in-state QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/football\/article\/dia-bell-texas-longhorns-2026-class-21333915.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longhorns <\/a>secured a commitment from in-state QB Ty Knutson on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 247Sports Composite rates Knutson as a 3-star prospect. He&#8217;s the No. 51 quarterback in the class, the No. 91 player in the state of Texas and the No. 729 overall recruit in the cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knutson quarterbacked Smithson Valley to a state championship in 2025, completing 12 of his 21 passing attempts for 160 yards and a touchdown in the title game victory over\u00a0Frisco Lone Star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listed at 6-foot-3, 202 pounds, Knutson chose the Longhorns over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/Cj0KCQiA4pvMBhDYARIsAGfgwvy8fFIayG2eypnTfg5xr3SyWcqnEgwJ7luqqIUIAXm1SnVdSLCwotkaAhRbEALw_wcB\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a>, Texas Tech, Houston, TCU and South Carolina, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His commitment moves the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/article\/texas-football-2026-recruiting-class-sarkisian-21215749.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Longhorns&#8217; 2027 recruiting class<\/a> to No. 9 overall and No. 4 in the SEC. Of Texas&#8217; six pledges in the cycle, four are three-star prospects, while the Longhorns also hold commitments from one four-star and one five-star recruit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns secured a commitment from in-state QB Ty Knutson on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 The 247Sports Composite rates Knutson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1078,1079],"class_list":{"0":"post-736486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-texas-longhorns","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116031369644455865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}